From b1228caeff7791116a68a400607f55fc891a4b2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zzak Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:24:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * signal.c (rb_f_kill): Update documentation for Process.kill to reflect kill(2) Patch by Richo Healey git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@36962 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ signal.c | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4fac902e0b75ab..bb30d28cbc4f2f 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Fri Sep 14 00:20:00 2012 Zachary Scott + + * signal.c (rb_f_kill): + Update documentation for Process.kill to reflect kill(2) + Patch by Richo Healey + Thu Sep 13 21:40:49 2012 Hiroshi Shirosaki * lib/securerandom.rb (SecureRandom.random_bytes): diff --git a/signal.c b/signal.c index b76044c62501eb..304b1e4f3fbbe5 100644 --- a/signal.c +++ b/signal.c @@ -304,11 +304,11 @@ ruby_default_signal(int sig) * call-seq: * Process.kill(signal, pid, ...) -> fixnum * - * Sends the given signal to the specified process id(s), or to the - * current process if _pid_ is zero. _signal_ may be an - * integer signal number or a POSIX signal name (either with or without - * a +SIG+ prefix). If _signal_ is negative (or starts - * with a minus sign), kills process groups instead of + * Sends the given signal to the specified process id(s) if _pid_ is positive. + * If _pid_ is zero _signal_ is sent to all processes whose group ID is equal + * to the group ID of the process. _signal_ may be an integer signal number or + * a POSIX signal name (either with or without a +SIG+ prefix). If _signal_ is + * negative (or starts with a minus sign), kills process groups instead of * processes. Not all signals are available on all platforms. * * pid = fork do